Program Area

Education

Location of Impact

Global, United States

Headquarters Location

Austin, Texas, United States

Product Platforms

Web, Mobile Apps

Budget

$0 to $500,000

Founder Demographics

Racial or Ethnicity Minority

Growing up in a small village in Nepal, Bimal Kumar, our founder, walked an hour each day to attend a school that lacked basic resources like textbooks and a library. And despite feeling trapped in a system that relied on monotonous rote learning, task completion and testing, he excelled. Eventually, he moved to the United States, graduating from the University of Texas with a degree in Aerospace Engineering. Intrigued by the differences between in the educations systems of his homeland and adopted country, he set out on a journey to better understand the foundation of quality learning. His travels took him to more than 30 countries, where he immersed himself in their national education systems, observing that each had its own strengths and weaknesses. He grew to believe that education cou

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